Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-02-18

ATDlUef OF nations. II Ile Woflu would allow
1t, it could to-day step in between Germany
and France and settle the trouble about Al
SAGE and Lorraine, and between Russia and
Bulgaria, and between England and her an
tagonists, and between all the other nations
that are flying at each others throats, and
command peace and disband armies,
and harness for the plow the war
horses now being hit,hed TO ammunition
wagons, or saddled for cavalry charge.
That time must come, or, through the in
creased facility for shooting men and blow
ingup cities and whelming hosts to instant
death, so that we can kill a regiment easier
than we could once kill a company, and kill
a brigade easier than we could once kill
regiment, the patent offices of the world
more busy than ever in recognizing new
enginery Of destruction, the human
race will, after awhile. go fighting with
one arm. and hobbling with enc foot and
stumbling along with one eye and some in
genious inventor inspired of the archangel
of all mischief, will contrive machine that
VIII bore hole to the earth's center ard
some desperate nation will throw into that
hole enough dynamite to blow this hulk of a
planet into fragments, dropping like me-
tions, -
But this shall not be. for Whatever else
let go, l hang on TO my Bible, which tells
me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet come
TO It's grandest use when the warrior aud the
husbandman shall enter it side by side, and
the soldier shall throw into its bank of fires
his sword, and the farmer shall pick it
up a ploughshare and the straiphtest
spear shall be bent into crook at each end.
and then cut in two, and what was one spear
shall be two pruning hooks. Down with
Molo'h and up with Christi Let no more
warehouses eat out Of the manger where Jesus
was born.
Peacel Forever roll off the sky the black
pillars of smoke from the Marengos and
Salamancas and Borodinos and Gettysburgs
of earthl And right after them, roll into
the heavens the peaceful vapors from the
chimneys of farmhouSes and aSylums, and
churches, aud capitals of Christian nations,
and as the sunlight strikes through
these vapors they will write in letters
of jet and gold all over the skv from horizon
to zenith: GLORY to God in the highest and
on earth peace good will to men!" Then let
all the men-of-war fire O broadside and all
the forts thunder forth resounding volley,
and the earth be girdled with the cannonade
over the final victory of the truth.
While thinking Of these things looked out
from my window. and the wind was violently
blowing. And saw from many chimneyS
the smoke tossed in the air and whirled in
great velocity, volume after volume, fold
after fold, and carried on the swift wind
were the great pillars of smoke. And helped
by Solomon in tho text | saw the speed OF
the church symboli7ed. Do you realize
the momentum the Church of God is under?
Why, the smoke of a chimney on the top of
Mount Washington when the wind is blow
ing sixty miles the hour, is slow as COM
pared with the celebrity of good influences.
For fitty-nine centuries the devil had it his
own way among the nations. Nearly all the
great missionary movements have been
started within the century, and see what one
century has done to recover the world from
fifty-nine centuries of devastation What
great revivals What mighty churches!
What saved millions! What advancing civ
ilizatonl In all the United States, Great
6r1taln, ireland, France, Germany, Italy
full freedom to worship God according to con-
science. Along the coasts of China, Japan and
Africa the batteries are planted which are to
take all these empires for God and civliza-
tlon. From the ruins of Babylon and As
syria, and Nineveh and the valleys of the
Nile, combinations have been exhumed prov
ing to all fair-minded men that the Bible is
the trueSt book ever written. The mytholo-
gies of Egypt We're found to have embodied
in them the knowledge of mans expulsion
from Paradise, and the sacrifice of great
emancipation. Mosess account of the creation,
corroborated by the hammer of Christian
biologists; the oldest profane writers like
Hiromus, Helanicu', and Berosus confirm
ing the Bible account of ancient longevity;
Tacitus and Pliny confirming the Bible
account of destroyed Sodom and Gomor-
rah; Tacitus and Porphyry telling the
same story of Christ as Matthew and Luke
told: Macrobius telling OF the massacre of
children in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketch
ing the darkness at the crucifxion. 1t is de-
monstrated to all honest men that it is not so
certain that William Cullen Byraut wrote
Thanatopsis or Longfelloy wrote Hiawatha
as that God by the hand Of prophet and
apostle wrote the Bible. Al the wise men
in science and law and medicine and litera-
ture and merchandise are gradually coming
to believe in Christianity, and soon their
will be no people who disbelieve in it except
those conspicuous for lack OF brain or men
with two families who do not like the Bible
because it rebukeS their swinish proLen tiles.
The time is fastening when there will be
no infidelS left except libertines and harots,
and murderers. Millions of Christians where
once there were thousands, and Thousands
where once there we're hundreds. What a
bright evening this, the evening of
the nineteenth century; and the twen-
tieth century which will dawn in
thirteen years from now, will in my opinion,
bring universal victory for Christ and the
Church, that now is marching on with step
double-luick, or, if you prefer the figure of
the text, is being swept on in the mighty
gales of blessing, imposing and grand and
ma iestic and swift, like pillars of smoke.
"Oh, come into the Church through Christ
the door, door more glorious than that of
the Temple of Hercules which had two pill
lars, and one was gold and the other emerald
Come in to-day! Come in and be one of the
eternal victors! The world you leave behind
is poor world, and it will burn and pass off
like pillars of smoke Whether the final con
hagration will start in the coal mines OF
Pennsylvania, which in some places, have for
many years been burning and eating into
the heart of the mountains: or whether it
shall begin near the California pevsers, o"
NSIo ha1f from ont tba fYYrp oonc OF COIODa II
and VeSuvius and Stromboli, it shall burst
forth upon the astonished nations. l make
no prophecy, but all geologists tell us
that we stand on the lid of a world
the heart of which is a raging flame,
and after a while the probabilityis that these
red monsters will burst out of their impris-
Onment of centuries, and it will be blaze
that will be seen in other worlds. But after
while these flames will begin to expire and
they will go down, and the round globe will
be living coal, and after that the living coal
will take on an ashen hue. Then it will begin
to smoke, and the mountains will smoke,
and the valleys will smoke, and
the islands will smoke, and the seas will
smoke, and the five continents will
be five pillars of smoke, and then
these columns of vapor all begin to lose their
density, and they will lessen, and they can
hardly be seen now as from the sky galleries
the inhabitants of other worlds watch them.
Finally, there will be only one curling
vapor of smoke. Then that will vanish
and there will be nothing left
but the charred hulk of burned out world,
the corpse of dead star, the ashes of an ex-
tinguished planet, fallen pillar of smoke
But that will not hurt any of your invest.
ments if you have made the Lord your por-
ton From your heavenly home you can
look down upon dsmantled, disrupted and
demolished earth without any perturbation.
When wrapped in fire the realms of ether
glow
And Heavens last thunder shakes the earth
below,
Thou undsmayed shalt DER the ruins smile,
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